The Fall Guy is an American action/adventure television series produced for ABC and originally broadcast from November 4, 1981, to May 2, 1986. It starred Lee Majors, Douglas Barr, and Heather Thomas as Hollywood stunt performers who moonlight as bounty hunters.
Lee Majors plays Colt Seavers, a Hollywood stunt man who moonlights as a bounty hunter. He uses his physical skills and knowledge of stunt effects (especially stunts involving cars or his large GMC pickup truck) to capture fugitives and criminals. He is accompanied by his cousin and stuntman-in-training, Howie Munson (Barr), who studied in Nashville—whom Colt frequently calls "Kid", and occasionally by fellow stuntwoman, Jody Banks (Thomas).
- Lee Majors as Colt Seavers
- Douglas Barr as Howie "Kid" Munson
- Heather Thomas as Jody Banks
- Jo Ann Pflug as Samantha "Big Jack" Jack (1981–82)
- Markie Post as Terri Shannon / Michaels (1982–1985)
Adaptations and spin-offs
A board game adaptation based on the show was released by the Milton Bradley Company[1] in 1981.
A comic strip adaptation was drawn by Jim Baikie for Look-In magazine.href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fall_Guy#cite_note-2" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">[2]
A video game adaptation was produced by British video game developer Elite Systems in 1984.[3]
A comedy advertising campaign ran in 1990 using various scenes and music to advertise a small town in Derbyshire (Codnor) selling a spring water soft drink called Codnor Falls.
Home media
On June 5, 2007, 20th Century Fox released the first season of The Fall Guy on DVD in Region 1. As with a number of other TV shows of the era released on DVD, the six-disc set contains extensive music substitutions due to copyright reasons (as well as completely editing out the sequences with actor/singer Paul Williams, in the pilot). Due to poor sales, whether the remaining seasons will be released is unknown.
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